Mancini’s time at City looks to be edging closer to an end with Brian Kidd is poised to take charge of the side for the remaining two games of the season.

The Italian, who won the Barclays Premier League title a year ago today, knows his time is up at the Etihad Stadium after the club decided to replace him with Malaga coach Manuel Pellegrini – but the Chilean has confirmed nothing has been signed yet.

Sportsmail understands PSG are also interested in competing for Mancini’s signature, with Carlo Ancelotti expected to replace Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid.

Mancini left City’s London hotel – dressed in the same clothes he was seen wearing last night – to take training at QPR’s Loftus Road ahead of Tuesday’s game with Reading, but he could be sacked before the game with assistant manager Kidd lined up to take charge in his absence.

City stayed in London after the FA Cup final ahead of Tuesday’s game with Reading – it also meant they missed out on their city rivals Manchester United celebrating winning the title and partying in Manchester on Sunday night.

Mancini is angry with the way the business has been handled since reports of a deal with Pellegrini leaked in Spain on Friday night.

Pellegrini told reporters following Malaga’s goalless Primera Division draw with: ‘I deny here and now being the new coach of Manchester City, I haven’t signed any agreement with anybody.’

Mancini cannot understand why no-one from the club has told him his time is up. He had dinner with his coaching staff on Sunday night, having stayed in the south after Saturday’s dismal defeat by Wigan.

It is understood that Mancini would have been sacked even if City had won at Wembley after a deal was struck with 59-year-old Pellegrini. He will now be officially told once everything has been rubber-stamped with City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak and owner Sheik Mansour.

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MANCINI HITS OUT AT CITY

With City due in America to play two exhibition games against Chelsea next week, Kidd and maybe even football ambassador Patrick Vieira could lead the squad.

City fans made their feelings known by singing Mancini’s name during Saturday’s final.

It was not just City’s relatively disappointing league season that left chief executive Ferran Soriano and sporting director Txiki Begiristain convinced they needed a change.

The pair — who weren’t at the club when Mancini led City to Premier League glory a year ago today — have been alarmed by the Italian’s deteriorating relationship with players and staff at all levels.

Out and about: Mancini’s assistant David Platt (left) joined the Italian for their meal in Knightsbridge

He has spent much of this campaign arguing privately and publicly with Joe Hart, Vincent Kompany and Samir Nasri. Mancini was even photographed grappling with Mario Balotelli on the training ground in the weeks before the striker was sold to AC Milan.

The City manager has also argued behind the scenes with executive staff. His habit of complaining in press conferences that the board let him down on transfers last summer has also ruffled feathers.

Mancini, for his part, has always been oblivious to how his behaviour away from the field was leading him into troubled waters. Late on Saturday at Wembley, he was still complaining that he was not being treated well.

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He said: ‘I don’t know why they don’t stop this rubbish. You wrote this for the last six months, and for the last two weeks. It’s too much. I don’t understand why.

‘For football, I talk and I take responsibility in the press.

‘If it’s true, it will be true . . . I don’t know. For me, no, I am happy to work for Manchester City. I’m happy with my job, I’m happy about what we did in three years. I am disappointed now that we lost this final. In football, everything can happen. I was sacked after seven trophies with Inter. It’s not my job to stop the stories.

‘Also last year it was the same: no-one did anything about this. I say to you one thing. When I worked for Inter Milan, the newspapers were the same as they are here and I thought always, “It’s not true, we are winning Serie A for the third year in a row”.

‘After the Italian Cup final I read the Corriere della Sera, a newspaper very close with Inter, and one journalist wrote that probably Inter will sack me.

‘In that moment, I understood that maybe it was true. You ask me about Pellegrini. I don’t know whether it’s true or not.’

Mancini signed a new contract at City after last season’s title win and will be owed a multi-million-pound severance package.

City were attracted to Pellegrini partly because of his reputation as a good Champions League coach. He led Villarreal to the last four when they were unfancied in 2006 and came within a minute of doing the same with Malaga this season.

Lonely: The Italian collects his runners-up medal after the shock defeat by Wigan

Winner: Zabaleta was sent off for City (above) before Watson scored in the dying moments at Wembley

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Wembley way: Mancini led City to Wembley for the second time after 2011’s success over Stoke

What a difference a year makes: On May 13, 2012 Mancini (left) was celebrating winning the Premier League title (below)… on May 13 2013, he is expected to be sacked as Manchester City manager

Mancini (centre) celebrates

City with the trophy

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10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT MANUEL PELLEGRINI

1 Spent his entire professional playing career with local club Universidad de Chile, making over 450 appearances before becoming their coach.

2 Pellegrini is a qualified civil engineer, earning him the nickname ‘El Ingeniero’ (the engineer).

3 Went to university at the age of 17, at the same time as starting his football career.

4 Did not even consider becoming a coach until the age of 30 but, after hanging up his boots at 33, took training courses in Italy and England before taking charge of Universidad’s youth squad.

5 He played for Chile as a defender.

6 Has coached some of the biggest clubs in their respective countries – Real Madrid (Spain), River Plate (Argentina), LDU Quito (Ecuador) and Universidad (Chile).

7 At his first European club, led little-known Villarreal to the most successful period in their history. In five years at El Madrigal, Pellegrini helped Villarreal twice finish in the top three of La Liga, win the Intertoto Cup, while leading them the Champions League for the first time where they reached the semi-finals in 2006 before losing to Arsenal. Villarreal also reached UEFA Cup quarter-finals under Pellegrini.

8 Lasted only one season at Real Madrid despite his winning 31 of 38 league games and accumulating a then club-record 96 points to finish runners-up to Barcelona. He was replaced by a certain Jose Mourinho.

9 Led Malaga to their first top-four finish in the Primera Division and subsequently into the Champions League for first time in their history, where they reached the quarter-finals this season.